Nintendo’s Super Mario Run mobile phone game comes out next week, and now we’ve learned a little bit more about it.

In an interview with Time, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto exposed that, while you’ll begin the game as Mario, ultimately you’ll have the ability to play as other characters by unlocking them.

” One thing we have done this time is that you’ll be able to play not simply as Mario, however after going through the video game and opening some things and satisfying some conditions, you’ll have the ability to play as a few of the other characters as well,” he stated.

Miyamoto didn’t say who these characters are, but Luigi and Peach look like safe bets. Asked if these other characters will have moves and abilities unique to them, he said, “It’s less on having those characters to accomplish or accomplish specific tasks, and more of providing gamers a tool to unlock more of their gameplay imagination.

” Even if you’re aiming to gather the very same group of colored coins, doing so with a different character will need you to do it in a various method. So that can be enjoyable for the players to check out.”Super Mario Run is free to download, though you have to pay $10 to unlock all the material. Whether the other characters are behind the paywall remains to be seen.

Miyamoto’s remarks was available in response to a question about Super Mario Run’s little number of power-ups as compared with the main series. He teased that future video games might do more in this location.

” I believe with this being our first Super Mario game on iPhone, we’ve designed this both in what’s the best experience however likewise with a long road ahead of us in regards to what else we can do on iPhone,” he stated. “So possibly you can anticipate some of that at some point in the future.”

Some of the validated power-ups for Super Mario Run are mushrooms and the Super Star.

Individually, GameSpot sister website CNET consulted with Nintendo executive Reggie Fils-Aime about Super Mario Run. He said you need to not anticipate a variation of the game for the Nintendo Switch.

Fils-Aime likewise reacted to the NES Classic Edition lacks, saying demand was “definitely higher” than it prepared for, adding that more stock is coming in to sellers every day. Asked if classic NES video games might be launched on smartphones in the future, Fils-Aims stated that’s not likely to occur.

” Candidly, no, without a reasonable quantity of adjustment,” he stated. “This hearkens back to the questions that we got maybe five years ago stating, ‘Nintendo, when are you going to get into mobile?’

And at the time, it was positioned as, just take all your tradition content and simply put it on mobile. The fact of the matter is, to make an excellent mobile video game, you cannot do that. You have to believe about the input device. You require to believe about, how is this going to be sticky?”

Super Mario Run comes out on December 15 for iOS gadgets, before landing on Android phones and tablets later. You can play a demo of the game right now by visiting an Apple store.

Fils-Aime and Miyamoto appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s late night show on Wednesday to display Super Mario Run and supply the very first public demonstration of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild running on Nintendo Switch.